William MacAndrews

William McAndrews (1872 – 1944 ), sometimes misspelled as William MacAndrews, was a Scottish football pioneer who played as a midfielder for some of the earliest Catalan clubs in existence such as Barcelona Cricket Club and Barcelona Football Club.

Playing career Born in Scotland, McAndrews moved to Barcelona in the late 1880s due to work reasons, and like so many other Britons who moved to the Catalan capital, he soon joined the British Club of Barcelona on La Rambla dels Capuchins, where he practiced several sports. They played their first cricket matches in a field near the Hippodrome of Can Tunis, which were disputed between the club's members and on some occasions against British sailors who docked in the port of Barcelona, with the earliest example of this dating back to 28 August 1891. Together with Reeves and some other football pioneers in the city, they formed the Barcelona Football Club in late 1892, and Cochran was crucial in its success.

McAndrews appears in the oldest documented image of a football team in Spain. He can be seen standing in the third row, the second from the right, between Henry W. Brown and Park. This entity organized the first known football match in the city, which was held at Hippodrome of Can Tunis on 25 December 1892. It remains unclear if he played in this match. However, he did play on 12 March 1893, in the historic match between a blue and a red team, starting as a defender for the former in a 1–2 win.

Later life McAndrews married Alice Mary McAndrews (1876–1955), who was born in Greater London. The couple had three children, William Edwin Roderick Goldthorp in 1901, Esther Alice McAndrews in 1905, and Grace Lillian McAndrews in 1910.

McAndrews died in 1944, at the age of either 71 or 72.